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  1. Thermoluminescence characteristics of Greek marbles: Prevalent/common features and limits of provenance discrimination

    Article • Radiation Physics and Chemistry, July 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  2. Mineralogical, Petrographic, and Isotopic Analysis of Colored Stones and White Marble from Ancient and Modern Quarries in Mani Peninsula, Southern Greece

    Article • Minerals, March 2026, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  3. CO2 hypogene speleogenesis of the Petralona cave system (Greece) during the Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene

    Article • January 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  4. Editorial for Special Issue “Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Fluid Inclusion Study of Gold Deposits Endowed in Critical Metals”

    Article • Minerals, December 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  5. Celt production processes and loci in Neolithic Greece

    Article • Documenta Praehistorica, November 2025, University of Ljubljana

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  6. Effect of out-of-equilibrium crystallization and fluid-assisted dynamic recrystallization on Ti-in-quartz thermometry in porphyry-epithermal deposits: Insights from Pagoni Rachi (NE Greece)

    Article • Lithos, November 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  7. Study of Garnets in Hellenistic–Roman Jewellery From the Collections of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Article • Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, August 2025, Wiley

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  8. Correction: Nikopoulou et al. Microscopic, Spectroscopic and Chemical Analysis of Emeralds from Habachtal, Austria. Minerals 2025, 15, 22

    Article • Minerals, July 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  9. Volcanic Rocks from Western Limnos Island, Greece: Petrography, Magnetite Geochemistry, and Magnetic Susceptibility Constraints

    Article • Minerals, June 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  10. Metallogeny and distribution of critical and strategic metals in the polymetallic vein mineralization at Kolchiko, Vertiskos Unit, northern Greece

    Article • Journal of Geochemical Exploration, May 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  11. Mafic VMS Mineralization in the Mesozoic Metavolcanic Rocks of the Evros Ophiolite, Xylagani Area, Greece

    Article • Minerals, April 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  12. Description of Manganese events in hydrothermal hypogene speleogenesis

    Article • Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, March 2025, National Speleological Society

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  13. Molybdenite Re-Os geochronology and conditions of formation of potassic and sodic-calcic alteration associated with the Plaka porphyry Mo-Cu system, Lavrion, Greece

    Article • Journal of Geochemical Exploration, March 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Konstantinos Soukis, Dr Vasilios Melfos

  14. Archaeometric Approaches to Red Ochre Exploitation in Neolithic Greece: From Kremasti-Kilada to Kitrini Limni and Beyond

    Article • Advances in Archaeomaterials, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  15. Microscopic, Spectroscopic and Chemical Analysis of Emeralds from Habachtal, Austria

    Article • Minerals, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  16. Sulfuric acid speleogenesis in Greece

    Article • Acta Carsologica, December 2024, Scientific Research Centre ZRC-SAZU

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  17. Magmatic and hydrothermal evolution of the Skouries Au-Cu porphyry deposit, northern Greece

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, October 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  18. Potential biosignatures in goethite deposits in Mavros Vrachos Quarry hypogene cave

    Article • CATENA, July 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  19. Study of green‐coloured gems of the Roman period from the collections of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (Greece) and their possible geographic origin

    Article • Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, June 2024, Wiley

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  20. Insights into fluid evolution and Re enrichment by mineral micro-analysis and fluid inclusion constraints: Evidence from the Maronia Cu-Mo ± Re ± Au porphyry system in NE Greece

    Article • Mineralium Deposita, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  21. Wall mosaics of Thessaloniki: A comparative study of the brown tesserae

    Article • Applied Research, February 2024, Wiley

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  22. A mineralogical and geochemical assessment of the As-, Cu-, In-, Pb-, Sb-, and Zn-rich mine wastes at the Pefka epithermal deposit, Greece

    Article • Journal of Geochemical Exploration, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  23. Effect of Disequilibrium Crystallization and Dynamic Recrystallization on Ti-in-Quartz Thermometry in Porphyry-Epithermal Deposits: Insights from Pagoni Rachi (Ne Greece)

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  24. A Review of the Distribution of Critical and Strategic Mineral Raw Materials in the Vein-Type Mineralizations of Vertiskos Unit, Northern Greece

    Article • November 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  25. Mineralogical and geochemical studies of Cu-Bi-Ag±W ores from Janjevo (Kosovo): Insights into the Bi sulfosalt mineralogy and the distribution of bismuth in base metal sulfides

    Article • Journal of Geosciences, August 2023, Czech Geological Society

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  26. Contribution to the Ostracoda (crustacea) Fauna of the karstic region of Texas with the description of a new species

    Article • Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, June 2023, National Speleological Society

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  27. Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Fluid Inclusion Study of the Stibnite Vein-Type Mineralization at Rizana, Northern Greece

    Article • Geosciences, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  28. Non-Destructive Study of Egyptian Emeralds Preserved in the Collection of the Museum of the Ecole des Mines

    Article • Minerals, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  29. Study of a Third-Century CE Sapphire Gold Ring in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Greece

    Article • The Journal of Gemmology, January 2023, GEM-A

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  30. Mineralogy and Mineral Chemistry of the REE-Rich Black Sands in Beaches of the Kavala District, Northern Greece

    Article • Geosciences, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  31. A Fluid Inclusion and Critical/Rare Metal Study of Epithermal Quartz-Stibnite Veins Associated with the Gerakario Porphyry Deposit, Northern Greece

    Article • Applied Sciences, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  32. Physicochemical constraints on indium-, tin-, germanium-, gallium-, gold-, and tellurium-bearing mineralizations in the Pefka and St Philippos polymetallic vein- and breccia-type deposits, Greece

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  33. Characterization of Natural Stone from the Archaeological Site of Pella, Macedonia, Northern Greece

    Article • Heritage, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  34. Sourcing macrolithics: Mineralogical, geochemical and provenance investigation of stone artefacts from Neolithic Avgi, north‐west Greece

    Article • Archaeometry, August 2021, Wiley

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  35. Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Corundum from Primary Deposits Found in Greece

    Article • Minerals, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  36. Rare and Critical Metals in Pyrite, Chalcopyrite, Magnetite, and Titanite from the Vathi Porphyry Cu-Au±Mo Deposit, Northern Greece

    Article • Minerals, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  37. Migration of Arc Magmatism Above Mantle Wedge Diapirs With Variable Sediment Contribution in the Aegean

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, June 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  38. Morphological features and formation conditions of The Almopia Speleopark caves (Loutra Almopias, N. Greece)

    Article • Acta Carsologica, May 2021, Scientific Research Centre ZRC-SAZU

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  39. The Lavrion silver district: Reassessing its ancient mining history

    Article • Geoarchaeology, March 2021, Wiley

    Dr Konstantinos Soukis, Dr Vasilios Melfos

  40. The Lavrion Mines: A Unique Site of Geological and Mineralogical Heritage

    Article • Minerals, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos, Dr Konstantinos Soukis

  41. The Geology, Geochemistry, and Origin of the Porphyry Cu-Au-(Mo) System at Vathi, Serbo-Macedonian Massif, Greece

    Article • Applied Sciences, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  42. The formation of shoshonitic magma and its relationship to porphyry-type mineralisation: the Maronia pluton in NE Greece

    Article • Lithos, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  43. Multi-Stage Introduction of Precious and Critical Metals in Pyrite: A Case Study from the Konos Hill and Pagoni Rachi Porphyry/Epithermal Prospects, NE Greece

    Article • Minerals, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  44. Morphological and geochemical characterization of the particulate deposits and the black crust from the Triumphal Arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki, Greece: Implications for deterioration assessment

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  45. Mineralogical Constraints on the Potassic and Sodic-Calcic Hydrothermal Alteration and Vein-Type Mineralization of the Maronia Porphyry Cu-Mo ± Re ± Au Deposit in NE Greece

    Article • Minerals, February 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  46. Characterization of stone artifacts from the Middle and Late Neolithic to the Chalcolithic deposits of Drakaina Cave, Kephalonia, Ionian Islands: a mineralogical-geochemical approach for determination of local and “exotic” raw materials and their sources

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  47. Editorial for Special Issue “Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Gems”

    Article • Minerals, December 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  48. Trace Elements in Magnetite from the Pagoni Rachi Porphyry Prospect, NE Greece: Implications for Ore Genesis and Exploration

    Article • Minerals, November 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  49. The geology and mineralogy of the Stypsi porphyry Cu-Mo-Au-Re prospect, Lesvos Island, Aegean Sea, Greece

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, September 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Konstantinos Soukis, Dr Vasilios Melfos

  50. Gemstones of Greece: Geology and Crystallizing Environments

    Article • Minerals, July 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  51. Porphyry and epithermal deposits in Greece: An overview, new discoveries, and mineralogical constraints on their genesis

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, April 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  52. Fluid Inclusions at the Plavica Au-Ag-Cu Telescoped Porphyry–Epithermal System, Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)

    Article • Geosciences, February 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  53. Application of zeolitic rocks in the environment: assessment of radiation due to natural radioactivity

    Article • Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  54. Gem Corundum Deposits of Greece: Geology, Mineralogy and Genesis

    Article • Minerals, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  55. A New Porphyry Mo Mineralization at Aisymi-Leptokarya, South-Eastern Rhodope, North-East Greece: Geological and Mineralogical Constraints

    Article • Geosciences, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  56. The Gersdorffite-Bismuthinite-Native Gold Association and the Skarn-Porphyry Mineralization in the Kamariza Mining District, Lavrion, Greece

    Article • Minerals, November 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Konstantinos Soukis, Dr Vasilios Melfos

  57. Mineralogical Study of the Advanced Argillic Alteration Zone at the Konos Hill Mo–Cu–Re–Au Porphyry Prospect, NE Greece

    Article • Minerals, October 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  58. Amethyst Occurrences in Tertiary Volcanic Rocks of Greece: Mineralogical, Fluid Inclusion and Oxygen Isotope Constraints on Their Genesis

    Article • Minerals, July 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  59. Selected Metal Content and Binding Behaviour in Riverbed Sediments of the Kavala–Philippi Area (Northern Greece)

    Article • Geosciences, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  60. Cenozoic metallogeny of Greece and potential for precious, critical and rare metals exploration

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  61. Occurrence of arsenic in waters and sediments of the Palea Kavala River, NE Macedonia, Northern Greece

    Article • Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, January 2017, National Documentation Centre

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  62. HYPOGENIC FEATURES IN MARONIA CAVE, THRACE, GREECE. EVIDENCE FROM MORPHOLOGIES AND FLUID INCLUSIONS.

    Article • Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, January 2017, National Documentation Centre

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  63. Bi-sulphotellurides from the Stan Terg deposit, Kosovo

    Article • Geologica Carpathica, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  64. Sn-Bearing Minerals and Associated Sphalerite from Lead-Zinc Deposits, Kosovo: An Electron Microprobe and LA-ICP-MS Study

    Article • Minerals, May 2016, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  65. Fluid evolution in Tertiary magmatic-hydrothermal ore systems at the Rhodope metallogenic province, NE Greece. A review

    Article • Geologia Croatica, February 2016, Croatian Geological Survey

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  66. Searching for ancient gold mines in Filippoi area, Macedonia, Greece, using Worldview-2 satellite imagery

    Article • Geocarto International, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  67. Chemical composition and varieties of fahlore-group minerals from Oligocene mineralization in the Rhodope area, Southern Bulgaria and Northern Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  68. Bismuth minerals from the Stan Terg deposit (Trepça, Kosovo)

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen Journal of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, July 2015, Schweizerbart

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  69. Geochemical and geochronological constraints on the formation of shear-zone hosted Cu–Au–Bi–Te mineralization in the Stanos area, Chalkidiki, northern Greece

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  70. Erratum to: Re–Os isotope evidence for mixed source components in carbonate-replacement Pb–Zn–Ag deposits in the Lavrion district, Attica, Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  71. Re–Os isotope evidence for mixed source components in carbonate-replacement Pb–Zn–Ag deposits in the Lavrion district, Attica, Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  72. Extremely Re-Rich Molybdenite from Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Prospects in Northeastern Greece: Mode of Occurrence, Causes of Enrichment, and Implications for Gold Exploration

    Article • Minerals, May 2013, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  73. THE PAGONI RACHI/KIRKI Cu-Mo Re Au DEPOSIT, NORTHERN GREECE: MINERALOGICAL AND FLUID INCLUSION CONSTRAINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF A TELESCOPED PORPHYRY-EPITHERMAL SYSTEM

    Article • The Canadian Mineralogist, April 2013, Mineralogical Association of Canada

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  74. Bismuthinite derivatives, lillianite homologues, and bismuth sulfotellurides as indicators of gold mineralization in the Stanos shear-zone related deposit, Chalkidiki, northern Greece

    Article • The Canadian Mineralogist, February 2013, Mineralogical Association of Canada

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  75. Aluminum-phosphate-sulfate (APS) minerals in the sericitic-advanced argillic alteration zone of the Melitena porphyry-epithermal Mo-Cu ± Au ± Re prospect, western Thrace, Greece

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen Journal of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, January 2013, Schweizerbart

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  76. Geological, Mineralogical and Geochemical Aspects for Critical and Rare Metals in Greece

    Article • Minerals, October 2012, MDPI AG

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

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    Article • June 2012, STEF92 Technology

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  78. Application of infrared thermometry and ultrasonic velocity for the investigation of the building materials of historic monuments of Dion, Greece

    Article • April 2012, SPIE

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  79. Mineralogical, stable isotope, and fluid inclusion studies of spatially related porphyry Cu and epithermal Au-Te mineralization, Fakos Peninsula, Limnos Island, Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  80. Applying the Techniques on Materials II

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  81. Mineralogy and geochemical environment of formation of the Perama Hill high-sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag-Te-Se deposit, Petrota Graben, NE Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, July 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  82. The first cave occurrence of orpiment (As₂S₃) from the sulfuric acid caves of Aghia Paraskevi (Kassandra Peninsula, N. Greece)

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, June 2011, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  83. Is the Palea Kavala Bi–Te–Pb–Sb±Au district, northeastern Greece, an intrusion-related system?

    Article • Ore Geology Reviews, June 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  84. The Geochemistry of Carbonate-Replacement Pb-Zn-Ag Mineralization in the Lavrion District, Attica, Greece: Fluid Inclusion, Stable Isotope, and Rare Earth Element Studies

    Article • Economic Geology, June 2011, Society of Economic Geologists

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  85. The ancient Greek names “Magnesia” and “Magnetes” and their origin from the magnetite occurrences at the Mavrovouni mountain of Thessaly, central Greece. A mineralogical–geochemical approach

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  86. RHENIUM-RICH MOLYBDENITE AND RHENIITE IN THE PAGONI RACHI Mo-Cu-Te-Ag-Au PROSPECT, NORTHERN GREECE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE Re GEOCHEMISTRY OF PORPHYRY-STYLE Cu-Mo AND Mo MINERALIZATION

    Article • The Canadian Mineralogist, October 2009, Mineralogical Association of Canada

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  87. GREEN THESSALIAN STONE or VERDE ANTICO

    Article • Oxford Journal of Archaeology, October 2008, Wiley

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  88. Carbonate-replacement Pb–Zn–Ag ± Au mineralization in the Kamariza area, Lavrion, Greece: Mineralogy and thermochemical conditions of formation

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, April 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  89. Mineralogical and fluid inclusion constraints on the evolution of the Plaka intrusion-related ore system, Lavrion, Greece

    Article • Mineralogy and Petrology, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  90. Bi–Ag-bearing tetrahedrite-tennantite in the Kapsalina copper mineralisation, Thasos island, Northern Greece

    Article • Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen Journal of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, June 2004, Schweizerbart

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  91. Origin and evolution of the Tertiary Maronia porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit, Thrace, Greece

    Article • Mineralium Deposita, April 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasilios Melfos

  92. Two plumbian tetrahedrite-tennantite occurrences from Maronia area (Thrace) and Milos island (Aegean sea), Greece

    Article • European Journal of Mineralogy, June 1997, Schweizerbart

    Dr Vasilios Melfos